Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-08
SMALL N%d1LSaMHLYON
DAKOTA.

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Hand county has twenty-three postofiices.
A $40, 900 -four mill is to be erected at Her
mosa.
Quail are freezing to death in Turner
county.
The holiday trade at Yankton dlstanced all
records.
Sioux Falls CALAMITY supported a Germania
! fair last week.
There are sixty-four members In the Rapid
City board Of trade.
County Officers elected In November viii as
sumo their duties January 3.
The supply of anthracite coal at Yonker was
| exhausted last week.
The game law will be in full force on and
after January !.
Sioux Falls building Improvements for 1886
cost over $4,000.
About GOO scholars are enrolled in the
Yapkton schools.
There are $40 children enrolled in the
Mitchell schools.
1t Is rumored that the Elk Point Courier Is
about TO change proprietorship.
The dance In the rink at Elk Point on
| Christmas eve was well attended.
The teachers Of Union county met In SEES
sion at Elk Point on Monday.
A Deadwood citizen named Greathouse has
married his mother-in-law
A -four mill to cosl $50, 900 is to be erected
at Hermosa, Custer county.
Sioux Falls has a Ladies' History club. This
year they will study Greek literature.
Wolfe, who murdered Mrs Unger in Kiddcr
county, is undergoing trial at Steele.
II took six men and a policeman to arrest
| two men at Yankton the other evening.
Rapid City claims to have no inhabitants
poor enough to need charitable attention.
A little Scandinavian giri spelled down a
whole township in Miner county last week.
The business men Of Hermosa are taking
steps towerd organizing a fire department.
The Northern Pacific viii reduce its passea-
ger rates to 4 cents a mile after January !.
1t took six men and a policeman to arrest
two men at Yankton the other evening.
A little Scandinavian girl spelled down a
whole township in Miner county last week.
The postotiicc name of Church, Ramsey
county, has been changed 70 Church's Ferry.
T. ID. Kanouse, OF Woonsocket, will lobby
at lsmarck In the interest Of prohibition this
winter.
A Rapid City man was bold enough to
marry his mother. n-law. Rural exchanges
please notice.
Eastern parties will build n tow mill at
White Lake II the citizens will raise them a
small bonus.
A man at Ashton has n pair OF ferrets that
are said to go out unattended and bring in
rabbits by the score.
The Lead City BARRIERS served liquors and
cigars to their customers on Christmas to per-
pctuate an old custom.
Al Aberdeen syndicate purchased 800 acres
for an addition at sl3, coo, which cost the orig
inal owner only $1,000.
The guards at the Sioux Falls penitentiary
presented Warden Shaw will an elegantgold
headed cane as a Christmas gift.
The Duluth road has become a certainty to
Sioux Falls and her future commercial great
ness is settled bey oDd all doubt
AT Sioux Falls on Sunday l.. G. Winslow
froze his feet while fixing the broken water
main and is quite seriously famed.
BY order OF Uncle Sam. 800 head Of cattle
were killed and frozen for the use Of Indians
at Lower Brulc agency he other day.
Anthracite coal consumers at Yankton are
now at the mercy of the railroads, the supply
being exhausted at the end Of last week.
The railroad taxes paid into the territorial
treasury amounts to 1922, 533 Ga. Receipts
from all sources show a total of S597 ,667.66.
Aman near Woonsocket raised his own
broom corn last summer and this winter will
make about 100 dozen broOms from the corn.
The Dickinson Coal company has begun OPP
~eratioIs on a vein OF coal twenty feet thick.
The quality Is said to be far superior to any
| coal In the markets of North Dakota.
Faulk county will indicate the appreciation
of the building OF two great railroads into its
boundaries by an immense banquet, the date
of which will be arranged hereafter.
Wolves In Bon Holnme county are becom.
ing a dangerous nuisance, and in place Of be-
| ing hunted they are now hunting the hunters.
On the Grow reservation, north of Dead
wood, there are ID, 600 head Of cattle ranging.
A g~eologist has reported to- the Rapid City
board OF trade that a new mine in the hills de-
velopes the fact that there is 81, 900, 900 in
sight.
Prof. Constant, Of New York, having de-
| clined the presidency Of the Rapid City School
OF Mines, Frank L. Carpenter has been elected
TO the position.
There is Joy at Bismarck. For some months
past every child born In that town was a girl
Last week, however, the charm was broken
and a male infant was added to the popula-
ton.
The Yankton ladies' have been publicly mott
fed not TO wear such big hats at the lecture
course. The dainty committee In charge of
the lecture season claim the large hats to bc a
nuisance.
! Ranchmen In the hills are making prepare
tions for farming next summer on n much
more extensive scale than they have hereto
| fore, and should the season be prohitious the
| crops viii distance present expectations.
The railway mali service has been changed
! ON the route from st. Paul, Mimi, to Bis
marck, ID. T., to end at Mandan, ID. T., 10
take effect January 1. The line will be known
as the st. Paul and Mandan railway post
Office.